• Introducing the iFactory – Apple has the will and the cash to dramatically change the lot of the Chinese workers who assemble its products. Doing the right thing could alter manufacturing in general for the better.

• Redbox-Warner deal expires, ending 28-day delay – Redbox will have to buy Warner discs without a discount from other sources, driving its costs up. But its customers won’t have to wait 28 days to rent them. Netflix has opted to buy from Warner and suffer under the delay.